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Gloating and the obligatory bracket

Well, I guess even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. As you can clearly see by viewing the post directly beneath this one, I successfully predicted/guessed the entire field of 65. I’ve been trying to pull this off for 15 years and always miss like 2 teams. But not this time. Most people seemed to miss on the 65th team and I correctly tagged Arizona. I don’t particularly like Arizona. Back in 1997, they spoiled the nearly perfect season of the Kansas Jayhawks and went on to win the National Title that should have been KU’s. A couple years later I lost money betting on them to beat Duke in the National Championship game. And then there is whole matter of Arizona having the only current NCAA tourney streak longer than my Jayhawks. And they beat us this year…rather badly I must say and, if they hadn’t won that game, they would never have made the field. So it is a bittersweet victory but I’ll take it.

Now it is time to completely ruin my reputation as a first rate college basketball analyst and dive into my (oh so not carefully) selected tournament bracket. I just looked at my brackets from the last two years and, while I didn’t do that well, I did pick the National Champion correctly last year. Of course it was Kansas and you could pretty much say I’m just a “homer” and pick them every year since I also picked them the year before. I will preface this by saying that I am most definitely NOT picking Kansas to go all the way this year. I would be happy to be wrong.